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P2P and P2P Links Ruled Legal In Spain

Posted by samzenpus on from the pirate-friendly dept.

Nieriko writes After three years of arduous litigation, Jesus Guerra Calderon, owner of both a small bar and the P2P link webpage 'elrincondejesus.com' has beaten the SGAE (something like the Spanish version of the RIAA). The historic ruling states not only the legality of link webpages, but also the legality of P2P file-sharing networks. Quoting the judge: 'P2P Networks as mere data transmision networks between individual internet users, do not breach any rights protected by the Intellectual Property Law.' Downloading a file (from a P2P network) for private use is perfectly legal as long as there is no lucrative or collective use of the downloaded copy."

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  1. Re:MAFIAA Loses to Jesus by MrNaz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yea and I worked so hard to build up my karma :(

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  2. Mod parent Informative! by mcvos · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I never know what to do with my mod points, and now that I find a very informative and insightful post with a score of only 1 (at the time of writing), I don't have any!

    1. Re:Mod parent Informative! by cbope · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I agree totally and have donated one of my mod points to your cause!

    2. Re:Mod parent Informative! by data2 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      And failed miserably by responding afterwards...

    3. Re:Mod parent Informative! by mqduck · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      I've said it before and I'll say it again: the "Offtopic" mod does nothing but harm Slashdot.

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  3. Re:MAFIAA Loses to Jesus by MistrX · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is Jesus a pirate? Or what kind of movies does Jesus download?

    All questions.

  4. Re:Spain by Inconexo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Moors weren't nigger, as in that time, black tribes of South and Central Africa hadn't merge with them. Many of the moors in this time had red of blonde hair. Spaniards are a mixture of a lot of races (iberian, celts, berbers, roman, visigoths, arabian, sirian, ...), so sure we have "nigger genes". What's the deal. Anyway, mankind was possibly originated, so all of us come from Africa.

  5. Re:Time for regimechange by sourcerror · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hitler won with rigging the elections. Even burning the Reichstag and blaming it on commies wasn't enough to get him elected.
    By that note you could argue that whole Eastern Europe democratically elected communist leaders. (Which happened in similar ways.)